Dimensional Invasion of the Real Earth

607. Zhang Xiu Jiaxu

On the street, the crowds coming and going generally have the strength of the third and fourth ranks. The higher ones, the fifth and sixth ranks, and the ranks above are relatively rare. Pretty good.

It was just after the Spring Festival, and the atmosphere of the first month was very strong, Liu Hao took Luo Hao and Xiao Long'er into a teahouse, and asked them with their voices, so as to know the current year and month.

The fifth year of Jian'an is the 200th year of the AD.

This year, many major events occurred in the Three Kingdoms, and the impact on the Three Kingdoms world can be called a reset;

It was also on the tenth day of the first lunar month that the famous "Clothing Belt Edict" incident broke out.

During the time of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao welcomed the emperor and moved his capital to Xu County, and had conflicts with Dong Cheng, the chariot general. Dong Cheng claimed to have accepted the secret edict in the belt of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty (note: it was declared to the outside world), and murdered Cao Cao with Zhongji, Wu Shuo, Wang Zifu, Liu Bei, Wu Zilan and others.

In the first month of the fifth year of Jian'an (200), Dong Cheng and others conspired to kill Cao Cao. Dong Cheng, Zhong Ji, Wu Zilan, Wang Zifu and Dong Cheng's daughter Dong Guiren were all killed by Cao Cao.

As Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, the core figures of the "Yi Dai Zhao" incident, Cao Cao sent Liu Bei and Zhu Ling to attack Yuan Shu at the same time. Exercising the duties of the prefect, he returned to Xiaopei by himself.

Changxi in the East China Sea and the counties and counties mostly followed Liu Bei, and Liu Bei had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, so he joined Yuan Shao in the north to fight against Cao Cao. Cao Cao sent Sikong Chief Shi Peiguo, Liu Dai, and Zhonglang to attack Fufeng Wang Zhong, but Liu Bei repelled them.

How can Cao Mengde bear it? Afterwards, after learning that Liu Xuande also participated in the "Yi Dai Zhao" plotting to assassinate him, he personally campaigned against Liu Bei.

At this point of time, it happened to be the time when Xu Du's "clothes belt edict" was exposed. Even if Dong Cheng and his gang were not punished, they were dying like birds in a cage.

The land of Xuzhou has returned to Liu Bei's hands again. The 'Huicheng' belongs to Donghai Kingdom, and Donghai Kingdom belongs to Xuzhou, which is under Liu Bei's jurisdiction. Cao Mengde has not yet personally conquered it. This marginal area is peaceful;

But in less than two months, Cao Mengde will personally lead the army to encircle and suppress, capture Liu Bei's wife and children, and take Guan Yu. In the future, it will be completely brought under the rule of Cao Mengde.

Knowing the year, a thought flashed through Liu Hao's mind, and Liu Hao quickly locked on to the city, staying in Huicheng for only one meal, so he took Luo Hao and Xiao Long'er towards the goal.

Yancheng,

Soon, he will be completely embraced by Cao Mengde. What Liu Hao wants is a time difference, before Cao Cao can persuade Zhang Xiu, the current general of Yancheng.

Zhang Xiu, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, as Zhao Yun's senior brother, his combat power is not among the top, but he is definitely not weak. Among the generals under Dong Zhuo's tent, he is almost ranked below Lu Bu, and Hua Xiong's combat power In comparison, Liu Hao thinks that Zhang Xiu is higher, at least on the same level as Zhang Liao.

Zhang Xiu belongs to the direct descendants of the Xiliang Group, and his uncle Zhang Ji has been obeying orders under Dong Zhuo's tent. Now more than half of his army is composed of Xiliang soldiers, especially cavalry. There is a foundation for starting a business.

At this point in time, Zhang Xiu was in a very confused stage. First of all, the city he occupied was surrounded by enemies on both sides, with the mighty Cao Cao on the north and Liu Biao on the south, which he could not provoke;

In other words, he is sitting in the city, which is actually in jeopardy, especially Cao Cao in the north, who wants to kill him all the time.

In July last year, Zhang Xiu beheaded Cao Mengde's eldest son, Cao Ang, and his nephew, Cao Anmin, in Yancheng, and personally thought Dianwei.

It can be said that he and Cao Cao have a mortal enmity, and he is also a wife of Cao Cao. Zhang Xiu has already surrendered, but Cao Cao has taken a fancy to Zhang Ji's wife, Zhang Xiu's aunt, which is unbearable;

Zhang Xiu, who was not very old at all, rebelled again in a fit of anger, which dealt a fatal blow to Cao Cao and made his heart ache. Not to mention the death of his eldest son and the death of Dian Wei, it was equivalent to the beheading of Cao Mengde's number one general. What's more, the death is still so unclear, how sad, and the hatred for Zhang Xiu is definitely not fake.

Zhang Xiu later surrendered to Cao Cao again, Cao Cao accepted it happily, and even held a big feast. He also let the two-character Cao Jun take Zhang Xiu's daughter, which stabilized Zhang Xiu's mentality of gambling his life.

As far as Cao Mengde is concerned, one is that he can bear it. As a hero who conquers the world, Cao Cao knows that he has some hatred and must hide it in his heart. He did not embarrass Zhang Xiu until his death. I have to say that Zhang Xiu was betting right.

It's a pity that Zhang Xiu also made a wrong bet. Cao Cao could bear it, but Cao Pi would never bear it;

In 207 A.D., Zhang Xiu followed Cao Cao to set Wuheng in Liucheng, died before arriving, and was posthumously named Dinghou.

At that time, Cao Pi, the then general of the Five Senses, was dissatisfied with Zhang Xiu because of Cao Ang's death in battle, and said, "You killed my brother, what face do you have?" Zhang Xiu felt uneasy and committed suicide.

Later, Zhang Xiu's son, Zhang Quan, succeeded him and was granted the title of Weiwei of Changle. But later, he was involved in Wei Xi's conspiracy and was regarded as a murderer of the same party.

The entire bet surrendered, and Zhang Xiu was forced to die. It is not known whether there was Cao Cao's acquiescence, but the bet was indeed lost, almost all the family was wiped out, and his son Zhang Quan was involved in the rebellion, which was also the fate of the whole family.

Here, the role played by Jia Xu is a bit weird. With Jia Xu's intelligence, he will not know what the fate of Zhang Xiu's family will be in the future, but he still persuades Zhang Xiu to gamble and surrender;

In Liu Hao's view:

Jia Xu observed the entire situation of the Three Kingdoms, and locked on Cao Mengde as an investment target. There must be selfishness, and it is not small;

It can be seen from Jia Xu's rise step by step since then, until the Taifu, and his death, it can be seen that Jia Xu made the right move in this move.

But if you want to say that Jia Xu is sorry for Zhang Xiu, it is not entirely true.

Who is Jia Xu? The "poison man" in the Three Kingdoms period got this title not because of how "poisonous" his strategy was, but because Jia Xu made a small decision to make tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people and soldiers work for him in order to survive. Fill the hole.

In the third year of Chuping (192), Dong Zhuo was killed, Niu Fu was also dead, and Wang Yun liquidated Dong Zhuo's remaining party.

At that time, Li Jue, Guo Si and others were disturbed and planned to flee separately;

At this time, Jia Xu came forward to stop them and said, "I heard that Chang'an City is discussing the plan to exterminate the people of Liangzhou, and your Excellencies abandon the subordinates and go alone, and a pavilion chief can catch you. Why don't you lead the troops?" To the west, gather the soldiers along the way, then attack Chang'an, avenge Dong Gong, if you are lucky enough to succeed, follow the state (order) to conquer the world, if you can't succeed, it's not too late to escape."

This plan was adopted by all.

So Li Jue and others spread rumors that "Wang Yun wants to cleanse the people here", contacted the generals in Liangzhou, led the army day and night, rushed to Chang'an, and gathered more than 100,000 people under the city of Chang'an. Li Jue, Fan Chou, Li Meng and others successfully besieged Chang'an City; for a while, the capital was filled with blood and blood, and the government and the public were in chaos.

Later, Jia Xu was called Zuo Fengyi. Li Jue and others wanted to make him a marquis based on Jia Xu's merits. Jia Xu said, "This is a strategy to save life. How can there be any credit?"

Li Jue and others asked Jia Xu to serve as Shangshu Pushe. Jia Xu said: "Shangshu Pushe is the teacher of all officials and a role model for the world. I, Jia Xu, have never had much reputation and it is difficult to convince others. Even if I can enjoy vanity, What good is it for the country?"

So he changed Jia Xu's appointment as Minister, in charge of selecting talents, and made many contributions in personnel affairs. Li Jue and others were close to Jia Xu, but at the same time they were very afraid of him.

This is Jia Xu, he knew very well that Wang Yun and others were liquidating, and he must not escape; so he let down a taciturn posture, walked to the front of the stage, and as soon as the plan came out, Wang Yun was killed, Lu Bu fled, and the puppet of Han Xiandi was changed again. hand.

As a counselor, so far, he is still on the sidelines, as if looking at the overall situation of the Three Kingdoms from the standpoint of a third party. The general trend of the whole world.

Now, after observing for a long time, he has already chosen Cao Mengde in his heart, which is why he persuaded Zhang Xiu to surrender to Cao Cao again. His choice must be correct. Surrender before Cao Cao can defeat Yuan Shao, that is, before Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's decisive battle, Zhang Xiu's threat must not be tolerated, and the choice was the most suitable, no matter how much Cao Mengde hated him, he had to endure it, and he was worthy of Zhang Xiu.

After all, Zhang Xiu knew very well about this matter. There was really no place for Zhang Xiu to stand in the Great Central Plains. He could stop Cao Cao once or twice, but it was hopeless to do it again. Instead of this, he might as well take a gamble.

As for why not vote for Liu Biao? Jingzhou is a world of aristocratic families, how can Zhang Xiu, a martial artist, integrate into it? The consequences are also not much better. Since you want to gamble, you might as well just gamble bigger.

Jia Xu followed Zhang Xiu and surrendered to Cao Cao, but he was also very low-key, and also watched with cold eyes.

On the one hand, it is due to Jia Xu's personality. On the other hand, Jia Xu thinks that he is not an old minister of Cao Cao, but has profound strategies, so he is afraid of Cao Cao's suspicion, so he adopts a self-protection strategy, keeps the door behind him, and does not interact with others in private. When children get married, they don't get married to the rich and powerful, and they are wise and safe.

Cao Cao didn't ask for advice, and Jia Xu hardly spoke, but every time he spoke, he was sure to hit the mark.

Among them, three examples can illustrate everything:

In the fifth year of Jian'an (200), Cao Cao and Yuan Shao fought in Guandu. Cao Jun's army was exhausted, Cao Cao asked Jia Xu for advice, Jia Xu said: "You are better than Yuan Shao in shrewdness, bravery, employing people, and decisiveness. If you have an opportunity, you can win quickly."

Cao Cao said he was good, and later seized the opportunity to attack Wuchao and defeated Yuan Shao in one fell swoop. After Hebei was pacified, Cao Cao led Jizhou Mu and appointed Jia Xu as Taizhong doctor.

In the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208), Cao Cao occupied Jingzhou and wanted to take the opportunity to go down the river eastward. Jia Xu dissuaded him, saying that he should appease the people and wait for the opportunity, but Cao Cao refused, and was defeated in the Battle of Chibi.

In the 16th year of Jian'an (211), ten coalition forces headed by Han Sui and Ma Chao gathered more than 100,000 troops to defend Tongguan against Cao Cao. After Ma Chao was frustrated, he proposed to draw the river as a boundary for peace negotiation, but Cao Cao refused.

Ma Chao came to challenge many times, but Cao Cao couldn't hold out, making Ma Chao want to fight quickly, but he couldn't win. In September, the request for demarcation of land was put forward again, and the son was sent as a hostage.

Jia Xu believes that he can pretend to agree on the surface to paralyze the opponent, but actually actively prepares and waits for an opportunity to wipe out the enemy.

Cao Cao asked Jia Xu how to defeat the enemy, and Jia Xu said, "Separate them." Cao Cao adopted his strategy and wrote a book to separate Ma Chao and Han Sui, causing them to strife. Seeing the time was right, Cao Cao took the initiative to attack the Guanzhong coalition forces and returned with a big victory.

He spoke three times, Cao Cao obeyed twice, and became the leader of the north in one fell swoop; he failed to obey once, and as a result, he returned from the Chibi War and almost died.

Only these three times, Jia Xu's position in Cao Mengde's heart was established in one fell swoop. This is also the reason why Cao Cao asked Jia Xu when he was raising his heirs. It was also this time that Jia Xu really stood out in the future and ranked among the three princes.

In the twenty-second year of Jian'an (217), when Cao Cao did not have a prince, Cao Pi was a general with five sense organs, and Cao Zhi, the Marquis of Linsu, was named Fang Sheng. Cao Pi sent someone to seek advice from Jia Xu.

Jia Xu said: "I hope the general can promote morality, cultivate tolerance, fulfill the responsibilities and obligations of scholars, be diligent and tireless, and not do things that violate filial piety, that's fine." Cao Pi followed his advice and deliberately Train myself.

Later, Cao Cao asked Jia Xu privately what he thought of Li Si, Jia Xu kept silent, Cao Cao asked him why he didn't answer, Jia Xu said, "I'm thinking of Yuan Shao and Liu Biao." Prince.

This investment brought Jia Xu the biggest harvest in his life;

In the first year of Huangchu (220), Cao Pi ascended the throne. In order to repay Jia Xu's kindness, he worshiped Jia Xu as Taiwei, became the Marquis of Weishou Township, and added three hundred food towns, totaling eight hundred households. He also distributed two hundred food towns, made his youngest son Jia Fang the Marquis of Liehou, and appointed his eldest son Jia Mu as the captain-in-law.

That year, Jia Xu was seventy-four years old. Three years later, in June, Jia Xu died at the age of seventy-seven. As the average life expectancy of the Three Kingdoms was less than 30 years old, a Jia Xu who lived past seventy-seven years old was definitely one of the oldest. Longevity is also a symbol of an era.

There is no doubt about his intelligence, if you want to convince Zhang Xiu, you must convince Jia Xu, as smart as him, the difficulty can be imagined;

The most important thing is that Jia Xu has been on the sidelines almost his entire life, looking at the world from a third-party perspective. He is extremely calm, and in terms of emotional fluctuations, he can be described as the top one in the entire Three Kingdoms.

This added to the difficulty of persuasion. Liu Hao did not have a systematic plan when he entered Wancheng and entered Wancheng.

Among them, Liu Hao couldn't guess Jia Xu's fundamental appeal at all.

In the Three Kingdoms era, heroes and heroes emerged in large numbers, which can be divided into two factions, one is to make meritorious deeds, one is to care about the chaos in the world, and the life and death of his people.

This faction occupies the vast majority, and the times have forced them to have little choice. If they do not advance, they will retreat, and they can only strive for the upper hand in the flood of war.

The other school is the investment school, which includes major families, they don't put eggs in a cage, they place bets everywhere, and I will stand by myself;

Jia Xu has been traveling outside the two factions, which made it impossible for Liu Hao to guess his appeal. He wondered whether Jia Xu had a mentality of seeking fame or not.

If he said no, he kept climbing up, if he said he had, he kept watching with cold eyes, not asking or answering, being alone, very contradictory.